Chapter 46 [Shen Liao War]
At this time, the Ming Liaoyangwei guerrilla: Zhou Dunji, ran to the Liaoyangwei command post and said to the Ming Liaodong Jingluo, "Now that the matter is urgent, please send troops to Shenyang Zhongwei and the Ming army in the city to attack the Dongyu." "But Ming Liaodong Jingluo didn't dare to send troops easily! The generals were furious and said, "If my generation can't save Shen, what will I do in these three years?" ”
Subsequently, the Ming Liaodong Jingluo sent 7,000 white pole soldiers of the Sichuan Army, which were garrisoned by the Ming Liaoyang Wei guerrilla and the Ming Liaodong garrison: Qin Bangping, who first crossed the Hunhe River and went north of the camp bridge, and the Ming Sichuan Commander envoy: Tong Zhonghua, the Ming Liaoyang Guard: Chen Ce, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Ming Jinshan Guard: Qi Jin, the Ming Jinshan Guard, and other generals led 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers to garrison the south of the bridge.
At this time, the Tusi soldiers camped on the north bank to meet the enemy, and the main force of the Zhejiang soldiers formed a formation on the south bank to meet the enemy, and suddenly a row of Daming Sichuan troops holding white poles and halberds appeared on the pontoon bridge to kill on the north bank, and the Houjin army under the Shenyang Acropolis was surprised to see a team, and the Ming infantry with strange weapons charged them head-on?
Although Nurhachi did not know this army, but did not underestimate the enemy, he immediately sent a fierce Zhengbai Banner to meet the battle, because in the past field battles with the Ming army were one-sided slaughter of the Ming army and the Ming army of Liaodong, and this time after the Jin Zheng White Banner Army did not put this group of Ming army in his eyes, but as soon as the two armies fought, the Jin cavalry was stabbed by the halberd of the white pole soldier of the Sichuan army.
Then as soon as the Jin soldiers fell off their horses, they were pulled out by the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army and slashed and killed, and soon the Jin Zheng White Banner was defeated, and then Nurhachi immediately sent his own guard army after the Jin Zheng Yellow Banner, but soon suffered the same defeat as the Zheng Bai Banner, and the two rounds of attacks made the Hou Jin Army suffer 2,800 casualties.
Just when Nurhachi was at a loss, the traitor Hou Jin's third lieutenant general: Li Yongfang, suddenly reported: "Qi Qi Great Khan, I have used a lot of money to buy several captured Ming army gunners in Shenyang Zhongwei, and the artillery from Shenyang Zhongwei can completely cover the entire Ming army position. ”
Nurhachi was very happy and immediately asked him to arrange, just as the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army lined up again to meet the new round of attack of the Eight Banners, the solid shells of the Fulong machine guns on the Acropolis of Shenyang fell in the ranks of the Ming army! The explosion caused chaos in the camp of the Sichuan army's white pole soldiers, and the Houjin army took the opportunity to rush up and crush this brave Sichuan army's white pole soldiers!
As a result, the general soldiers of the Sichuan Army of the Ming Tusi Corps: Zhou Dunji, and the general of the Ming Sichuan Army: Qin Bangping, died in battle! Only the Ming and Sichuan troops were garrisoned: Qin Minping, and a few other Ming generals rushed across the pontoon bridge and returned to the camp on the south bank of the Hunhe River of the Ming and Zhejiang soldiers and Qijia Army.
This made the commander of the Ming Liaodong Commander: Qin Liangyu, when he learned the news that his brother (Qin Bangping) was killed in battle! She cried loudly and personally led the 3,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers to collect the corpse, after passing through the Jin army retreated ten miles and did not dare to fight, Ming Liaodong commanded Tongzhi to play Qin Bang when he died.
Ming Xizong specially issued an edict to Qin Liangyu to add the title of military general (Dingguo general) and give Qin Liangyu as (Mrs. Yipin), and Qin Liangyu's son: Ma Xianglin, as the "Stone Pillar Propaganda Envoy", the Ming military department Shangshu: Zhang Heming, also let Ming Xizong treat Qin Liangyu's family favorably and ordered to posthumously seal Qin Bangping as the hereditary official position of the descendants of the (Sichuan Commander), and also awarded Qin Minping the official promotion (Liaodong Metropolitan Division), and also let the Ming Dingguo general Yipin order to order Mrs.: Qin Liangyu, and then return to his hometown to recruit 2,000 Sichuan Army white pole soldiers to the front line.
Because the imperial court was eager to recruit the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army to resist Jin, some Tusi were very unconvinced and met the Ming Yongning Xuanfu envoy: Extravagant Chongming, rebelled in Chongqing Mansion! Mrs. Ming Yipin hurriedly led the troops to suppress it.
At this time, the Zhejiang soldiers on the front line, Qi Jiajun, had just finished arranging the car formation (the car array was made by the Ming Prince Taibao Jizhou General Soldiers: Qi Jiguang, Ming Pingman's general: Yu Dayou, when defending the Tatar Department in the north, he explored a set of effective tactics for using firearms infantry to deal with cavalry, and the chariot can be loaded with grain and grass, ordnance, and munitions when marching can be enclosed as a camp, and the vehicle is surrounded into a circular defensive position to mount the artillery on the car, and the soldiers use the car as a cover to release guns and artillery, In the battle against both the Tatar and the Shogunate Japanese army, the chariot formation played a major role).
At this moment, the Houjin cavalry also crossed the Hunhe River and surrounded it from all sides, and launched an attack from the left flank with the strength of the four banners, and when the cavalry rushed to 300 paces, it was hit by the large-caliber Frankie artillery of the Zhejiang soldiers and Qijia Army, and first fired a platoon of artillery salvos (dong, dong, dong) to blow up the offensive formation of the Houjin army.
When the Houjin army hit 200 paces, the bows and crossbows in the Ming army's chariot formation made the Houjin cavalry fall one by one, but the Houjin army relied on the impact of the cavalry and its own ferocity, and continued to impact within 100 steps and began to draw the bow and shoot arrows on the horse, but this 100 steps is the range of the Ming army's light firearms.
The Ming army's bird guns, rocket artillery, small-caliber tiger squat guns, three-eyed guns, five-thunder guns, thunderbolt guns, ten-eyed guns, iron guns, copper guns, kidnapping guns, nine dragon guns, lifting guns, Lianzhu guns, sub-mother guns, flying crows, swarms of bees, and other firearms salvos made the Houjin army fall off their horses and die in battle.
Then Jin Bing found that the Ming army that had been summed up in the past was only three rounds of fighting against the enemy! The experience of breaking through the military formation after three rounds of lead bullets did not work in this Ming army? I saw that the three rows of Ming troops behind the car formation were shooting rhythmically and non-stop.
This is the Qi army's well-trained (fire gun triple array), despite this, there are still some fierce Houjin cavalry broke through the firepower network, rushed to the front of the car formation, and the Qi family army immediately rushed out with the "iron wolf" to stab the Houjin army to death, after two rounds of attack, the Jin soldiers fell from their horses and suffered casualties as high as 3,600.
As a result, Nurhachi immediately changed the formation to use siege and defensive firearms and arrows (chariots) to push out, which is made of wide and hard pine planks in the northeast, which can block the light firearms of the Ming army. The cavalry team composed of carts and horses rushed out and slashed the Houjin infantry to death.
Just when the Qi family army was in an orderly manner, the supporting Ming army led 30,000 Ming troops under the leadership of Zhu Wanliang, the general soldier of Ming Jingwu Battalion, and Li Bingcheng, the general soldier of Ming Fengjibao, to the area of Baitapu, which was 13 miles away from Shenyang Zhongwei.
Moreover, the forward Ming army successfully repelled the 200 guard cavalry of Houjin, giving the Zhejiang army a glimmer of life, but this Ming army suddenly stopped and watched the battle? Nurhachi seized the opportunity of the Ming army to rest and sent Huang Taiji to lead 5,000 cavalry to attack the Ming follow-up reinforcements and push back the 30,000 Ming army for 15 miles!
In this way, the Houjin army planned to annihilate the Qijia army of the Zhejiang soldiers who had lost their support and retreat, and Nurhachi gave a death order to let the Eight Banners Army take turns to attack the Qijia army. After the car formation was also broken, the Jin army rushed into the car formation.
However, the Zhejiang soldiers and the Qi family army immediately formed the "Mandarin Duck Array" with the post as a unit, and launched a tragic slashing with the Houjin army, and the wolf hand, rattan card player, and war knife hand in each team of the Ming army covered each other and cooperated with the enemy to fight, especially the Qi family army used the fierce shogunate knife improved (Qi family knife) to slash the eastern prisoners.
The Houjin army was cut to the ground, but in the end, due to being outnumbered and two consecutive days of rapid marching, as well as the fierce battle, the physical strength was exhausted! The soldiers of the Qi family army kept falling, and the general soldier of the Ming Liaoyang Guard: Chen Ce, after killing 16 Houjin soldiers, was hit by an arrow and fell in a pool of blood!
At this time, the Ming aid suppressed the general soldier: Tong Zhonghua, and hurriedly rode the war horse and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to evacuate the battlefield, but the deputy chief soldier of the Ming Jinshan Guard: Qi Jin, grabbed the reins of his war horse and said, "The husband kills the enemy and serves the country today, how can he be greedy for life and afraid of death?" ”
So the Ming aid and suppression of the general army and the deputy general of the Ming Jinshan Wei together into the battlefield, only 50 Qi soldiers were left when they hit the unitary, they surrounded Qi Jin and Tong Zhong in the formation, the Qi family army mandarin duck formation is still in danger, after the remnant sun falls, the last Sichuan and Zhejiang Corps of the Ming Empire, the two major Ming army camps are all destroyed! Only 3 hundred Sichuan Zhejiang Ming army broke through the siege, known as the Battle of the Hunhe River, and it was also the first bloody battle against Jin in Liaodong.
Subsequently, Shenyang Left Guard, Shenyang Zhongwei, Shenyang Right Guard, Dongning Guard, Dingliao Zhongwei, Dingliao Left Guard, Dingliao Right Guard, Dingliao Qianwei, Dingliao Rear Guard and other places also fell one after another.
After the Ming Liaodong Jingluo let Fengji Fort, Weining Fort and other Ming troops retreat to defend Liaoyang Wei, and divert water into the moat to set up a row of cannons along the river, the Ming army around the city to guard and wait for the Jin soldiers to come to the city, Ming Liaodong Jingluo personally supervised the Ming Liangzhou Guard: Hou Shilu, Ming Fengjibao Commander-in-Chief: Li Bingcheng, Mingwei Ningbao Commander-in-Chief: Liang Zhongshan, Ming Yunnan Commander-in-Chief: Jiang Bi, Mingjing Martial Arts Battalion Commander-in-Chief: Zhu Wanliang.
They went out of the city for five miles to meet the Houjin cavalry, but they were all defeated and the Ming army suffered many casualties! That night, Ming Liaodong Jingluo did not dare to enter the military camp in Zhenyuan City, and had to camp in the field for fear that the Houjin army would attack the city.
The next day, the Jin army dug open the west gate of the city to eliminate the stagnant water in the moat, and sent troops to guard the east of the city to cross the moat, and came to the Liaoyang Acropolis to fight with the Ming army, the two sides fought for a long time, many Jin cavalry rushed to the edge of the city to shoot arrows, and the defeated Ming army ran out of the city, some were drowned, some were killed, and suffered heavy casualties!
Yin Ming Liaodong Jingluo entered the city and Ming Liaodong patrol according to the imperial history: Zhang Quan, stuck to the city wall and Ming Liaoyang Health Supervision Division: Gao out, Ming Dengzhou Wei General: Hu Yingdong, and other generals fled over the city wall to make the hearts of the people scattered, after the Jin army attacked the city again when the Ming Liaodong Jingluo led the Ming army to hold the shield battle and defeated down, to the time of the Mo Nan Mongolian Chahar Department set fire to the city tower, leading the Jin army from the west gate into the city instantly chaos in the city!
Ming Liaodong Jingluo saw this situation on the tower of the East Gate and felt that the general trend had gone! He sighed to the imperial history of Ming Liaodong, "You don't have the responsibility to defend the city, hurry up and escape!" Let me die here! After that, he drew his sword and killed himself, and his wife and brother: Yao Juxiu, also committed suicide, and the servant: Tang Shiming, supported the body of Yuan Yingtai, who was in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, and cried and set fire to the city tower.